Short game is king!

Haha I’ll do my best, but can’t promise anything 🤣 thanks for the sub Justin 👊🏼

Thanks Stephen and good luck getting your handicap down!

Thanks man and good luck 💪🏼

Thanks Reegan 🙏🏼

Thanks for the sub John! Hopefully the back gets better soon

Thanks Alex, 12 is a good target. Good luck 👊🏼

How are u getting on ? What scores were u shooting at a 30 handicap

Thanks Joshua

Thanks 👊🏼

Costco balls are the best cheap balls you can get. It’s either Costco balls or Pro V1 or equivalent in my opinion

I would work on nothing but ball striking until you get to around 15.

Wouldn't worry about putting yet as I'm in the same boat and putting doesn't matter if you run out of strokes just getting to the green

Building that confidence around the green is so important. If you make a mistake on the course you’ll be questioning if you even are swinging correctly

@@JackFowlerGolf have learnt to leave bad shots where they are and move on. Used to hold on to them and it would ruin my game.

Controlled swing is key!

Thanks John!

Club distances are key, it also helps you mentally over the ball knowing 100% you have the right club and can commit to the shot

Couldn't agree more. Before I had a GPS device I had no idea how far from the hole I was. In addition, I had no idea how far I hit it anyway! Now I have GPS and know my distances I can just casually swing away knowing I won't overshoot it. I also always play conservatively and go with the distance to the middle of the green which normally gives me +/- 10 yards to play with.

Thanks Sheridan 👊🏼

Thanks William, happy you think the quality is good! Didn’t come out as good as I wanted but next video will be better 👍🏼

Yep got to practise on the range, but the course is different. Sometimes it feels great at the range but doesn’t translate to the real thing straight away!

Thanks Bob! Portugal looks lovely, if I’m there and get some time I’ll let you know 👊🏼

@@JackFowlerGolf sounds like a plan mate! I look forward to following your journey 👌

Good luck, make sure you get that putting feel back. Will save you loads

@@JackFowlerGolf For sure! It seems to be the one thing I didn't lose too much from my long hiatus, so I'm definitely holding on to it for dear life. I 100% wouldn't already be back under 100 if it wasn't for my low putting average. Short game is really saving my butt! As you said in the video, it's most of your shots, so as long as you manage to get close to the green, if you manage to get up and down and putt properly, things can only get so bad to begin with! 7 iron and down is pretty much under control, but my long game is messed up. I lost about a club in distance across the board (a bit more with my driver, used to average 250 carry, now it's 225-230), and I'm getting extremely inconsistent hits with my woods and long irons.

Hard to improve with only playing that much!

@@JackFowlerGolf have recently swapped my range time for park trips and nappy changing ...birthday parties and Disney films ....youngest is 1 oldest is 4....next few years hopefully I can get back into it properly...I need a KZfaq job! Golf content pay the bills and golf the days away 🙏

Legend 👊🏼

Thanks will

LOL. That's pratically impossible,.

​@@Mihigo26 think he means cup 5 shots off his handicap, so down to 20 which is very manageable. I went from 20 to 12 in 18months! Now on the path to get single digits

@@darraghmcinerney9213 I hope that's what he means.

Thanks Paul

Can’t go wrong £1 a ball

John - what I did years ago was to go to one of the muni courses near me. Bought a measuring wheel from Home Depot and picked a course that had a par 5 that was sort of out of the way, yet had close access to get on. It was the 5-6th hole and I would head over there 6-7p and drag my clubs, bag of balls and measuring wheel. Picked a spot that was level and would hit 10 balls out then measure them all, write it down and hit 10 balls back towards golf bag. Measured and wrote those down. Did that for each iron and hybrid with full grip then also 1 and 2 inch choke down on clubs. Took all the measurements and plugged them into XLS and got my averages. Not the number was based on rollout not exact carry. But a few things happened from this. 1st - I now had 3 yardages for just about all my clubs in the bag. 2nd - the improvement in my game took me from 8-9 hcp to 3-4. Going from hitting GIR and having 30 foot putts (I SUCK at putting) to getting inside 20 feet like ALL the time was the 2nd biggest difference maker in my game. The biggest difference maker? You gotta hit balls all the time. Like 4-5 days/week. Even if you suck and have crazy swing, you will improve as you increase your confidence thru consistency in how you hit the ball. #3 is NOT showing up at the course 6 minutes before your tee time. You play twice a month, show up at the course and check in and go to 1st tee and in the 5 minutes you wait for the group in front of you to clear out you putt for 3 minutes. Then on the 7th hole your about to snap all your clubs cuz your 16 over par already then magically you start getting some pars and bogies. End your day shooting 94 and you wonder why you suck.

I actually bought a walking wheel also at Home Depot many years ago. I still have it. I'm going to do this as you suggest. Ty for that.

Got to look at what cost you the most strokes. With me it was off the tee, I was always off the fair ways and either in a hazard or couldnt find it. Went and tried a couple new drivers out and ping 425 max just fit my swing. The pxg i had I just couldnt keep straight. Went from a 103 to a 93 in 2 rounds.

Couldn’t agree more! That’s what I’m currently working on now as it’s my weakness and dropping the most shots on. It’s just very boring… I find good quality 30 mins of putting and chipping works rather than 1-2 hours of drawn out work

Most people spend most of there time with Driver and Irons because they can't even get to the short game area LOL. My biggest issue use to be me just getting off the tee and fating my irons LOL. Now that I've gotten past that, shooting 85 and has become so easy. ;-)

I have the tendency to be quite closed with my alignment. Looking back I meant to aim to the left side of the green and let it fade into the green. But the ball started over the right side of the green and faded to the right of the bunker… also being in a slight downslope made it fade a bit more too

This is in answer to the doubter comments.

Driving range sessions would be best for you then. Working on that solid ball striking!

100% achievable, it’s the experience that comes with reading lies, course management, short game etc. Still learning all this myself!

@@JackFowlerGolf it's a lot harder than I thought it would be but that's the attraction. Shot par for 9 holes then 10 over for 9. Wish I started younger but here we are. Keep it up pal

Always come off the golf course thinking ‘if only I did that my score would be so much lower’ 🤣

@@JackFowlerGolf Hindsight is a great thing in golf, I agree, I do the same. Hero shot and rarely pays off

Thanks for the like and sub, I’ll be doing some more follow up vids soon 👊🏼

Good point, will probably keep the ads off whilst the channel is growing but would love to make it a thing at some point

Amazon if I remember correctly

Heard great things about them

In the summer when the floor is firm it would run out to that. Probably carrying 250 on a good one back then

I didn’t have a consistent swing when I started!

Thanks Liam I practise around 4/5 times a week atm trying to get to scratch

Good points there

The grove was a birthday round when it cost £100 for twilight! It’s gone up considerably the last year tho…. Also, I’m a member now at west Herts 👍🏼

​@@JackFowlerGolf Yeah I saw that offer but never got around to actually doing it. Would you say it was worth it? West herts looks nice as well but never got to play there

Swingu

I do tee my 3 wood up, but it’s only a small tee. Kind of like when you tee up an iron shot. I like to keep the same swing with my 3 wood off the fairway to the tee box rather than swinging up off the tee and down on the fairway. Less mistakes that way